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Index
Cover
Title Page
Copyright
Dedication
Contents
List of Maps
List of Illustrations
Preface
Part I: Wealth, Christianity, and Giving at the End of an Ancient World
Chapter 1 Aurea aetas: Wealth in an Age of Gold
Chapter 2 Mediocritas
Chapter 3 Amor civicus: Love of the city
Chapter 4 “Treasure in Heaven”
Part II: An Age of Affluence
Chapter 5 Symmachus
Chapter 6 Avidus civicae gratiae: Greedy for the good favor of the City
Chapter 7 Ambrose and His People
Chapter 8 “Avarice, the Root of All Evil”
Chapter 9 Augustine
Chapter 10 From Milan to Hippo
Chapter 11 “The Life in Common of a Kind of Divine and Heavenly Republic”
Chapter 12 Ista vero saecularia: Those things, indeed, of the world
Chapter 13 Ex opulentissimo divite: From being rich as rich can be
Chapter 14 Commercium spiritale: The spiritual exchange
Chapter 15 Propter magnificentiam urbis Romae: By reason of the magnificence of the city of Rome
Chapter 16 “To Sing The Lord’s Song in a Strange Land”
Chapter 17 Between Rome and Jerusalem
Part III: An Age of Crisis
Chapter 18 “The Eye of a Needle” and “The Treasure of the Soul”
Chapter 19 Tolle divitem: Take away the rich
Chapter 20 Augustine’s Africa
Chapter 21 “Dialogues with the Crowd”
Chapter 22 Dimitte nobis debita nostra: Forgive us our sins
Chapter 23 “Out of Africa”
Chapter 24 “Still at That Time a More Affluent Empire”
Part IV: Aftermaths
Chapter 25 Among the Saints
Chapter 26 Romana respublica vel iam mortua: With the empire now dead and gone
Chapter 27 Ob Italiae securitatem: For the security of Italy
Part V: Toward Another World
Chapter 28 Patrimonia pauperum: Patrimonies of the poor
Chapter 29 Servator fidei, patriaeque semper amator: Guardian of the faith, and always lover of [his] homeland
Conclusion
Abbreviations
Notes
Works Cited
Primary Sources
Secondary Sources
Index
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